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Monday 24th April 2023, in the Boot & Flooger, the theme having shifted from “Bring a Bottle” to a reprise of a tasting thirty years before.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1963 Taylor;
• 1963 Graham;
• 1963 Martinez;
• 1970 Taylor;
• 1970 Graham;
• 1970 Cockburn;
• 1970 Noval;
• 1970 Dow;
• 1970 Gould Campbell;
• 1970 Unknown;
• 1977 Fonseca;
• 1992 Graham Malvedos;
• 2011 Fortnum & Mason (Niepoort);
• 1975 Chiltern Valley Syrah= †;
• Placemats;
• Food order;
• Planning and arrangements.

N70. Glorious red, 50% opaque. Rich red fruit; texture soft and excellent.

30% opacity, mature red-brown. TCA?

Opened at 21.00, double-decanted at 23.00 and sealed with a vacu-vin. Bottled by Churton. Clean appearance, mature and 40% opaque. Dirty and unpleasant nose, perhaps a touch of TCA giving some bitterness to the palate. Not rated.